This text, which is the first volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions.[...]
Introduces today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. This work includes coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, and an essay program on medieval myths. The author writing about his realization, while in college, says that our world today "is a product of the medieval[...]